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...Arab officials who had gathered in Beirut last week said that if the Administration wants to keep its war on terror rolling, the U.S. had better intervene soon--and that, in Arab eyes, means leaning hard on Sharon. Diplomats in the region reacted furiously to Israel's decision to launch its assault on Arafat just as news of the historic Arab offer to normalize relations with Israel broke. On Friday officials from Morocco to Saudi Arabia implored the White House to put the brakes on Sharon's tanks. "People are extremely angry," says one Arab diplomat. "The perception is that...
Disengagement could jeopardize Arab support for America's war on terror, but the Administration feels burned already. Last week's violence was particularly embarrassing for Cheney, a reluctant peace broker who nonetheless willed himself into the fracas--first by offering to meet Arafat if he agreed to a few conditions and then by privately asking Sharon to allow Arafat to travel to Beirut, only to be turned down by both. That has left the dirty work to Powell, who spent last week fielding calls from Arafat's bunker and soothing Arab and European leaders irate with Israel's actions...
...understand why Palestinian men, and now women, are blowing themselves up in Israeli restaurants and buses is to understand the Arab-Israeli conflict. Ours is a nation of anger and defiance. The struggle today is how not to become a suicide bomber. We are told that there are long queues of people willing to join the road to heaven, and I believe...
What propels people into such action is a long history of humiliation and a desire for revenge that every Arab harbors. Since the establishment of Israel in 1948 and the resultant uprooting of Palestinians, a deep-seated feeling of shame has taken root in the Arab psyche. Shame is the most painful emotion in the Arab culture, producing the feeling that one is unworthy to live. The honorable Arab is the one who refuses to suffer shame and dies in dignity...
...years of Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip has served as a continuous reminder of Arab weakness. But it was the destruction of the P.L.O. in Lebanon by Ariel Sharon that decisively shifted the Palestinian-Israeli confrontation to the occupied territories and Israel. Helplessness and shame gave way to anger that later poured into the streets as defiance. That was the first intifadeh...